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I've enjoyed high protein ones more than common plant milks because they are a bit thicker. I usually get unsweetened versions of the basic protein versions you see in grocery stores. Iirc traditionally soy drinks tend to be a fair amount thicker than what the west tends to get with plants milks (and cow milk tbf) and that's something I can definitively get behind.

One thing I've noticed too is that chocolate plant milks tend to be a lot more chocolatey than grocery store milks which tend to feel watered down and kind of disappointing.

I really enjoy checking out journalism awards. It's often a great way to both find new sites/orgs etc and also maybe run into some intriguing or deeper written stuff you may have overlooked. Checking for journalism awards for your region can really add to that appeal especially if you are outside the US and you feel a little drowned out by their news.

There are a fair amount of open source games out there and some great lists but I mainly wanted to highlight with this comment that itch and steam both have ways to find them. Hell I was just playing one earlier to check out the new content (drl).

Steam has this handy curator: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38475471-Libre-Open-S...

Itch has this filter: https://itch.io/games/tag-open-source

As a bonus here are some random non abandoned lists I found with quick search:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_game...

https://github.com/michelpereira/awesome-open-source-games

https://github.com/bobeff/open-source-games

I had similar frustrations and switched to getting ingredients for muesli and assembling it myself. Super hearty, tasty, not processed, adaptable to your mood/tastes/nutritional needs and cheaper than store bought cereal. I assemble it on the spot, it doesn't take much time and is a nice little ritual but you can also pre mix it if you want something quicker.

There are a few rss feed sharing/blogroll sites out there now but I liked how this one has a full feed for each list so you can see what each blogroll looks like in action instead of it just being a clunky list of individual links out to sites to click through. Plus you can follow other peoples lists through the site too.

Tbh I think there is a lot of room for improvement related qol and ease of browsing feed lists for sites like this and blogrolls in general but blogflock has been the one I've liked most so far after looking at a bunch over the years. Iirc I've seen people host their own blogrolls here and there with a visible feed similar to this site but I'm having a bit of trouble searching for the software they used.

Personally the cure for most of that has been to have js off by default. It's certainly a bit clunky especially when you are first growing your list of allowed sites and third party connections but ultimately it kills off so many annoyances and improves performance enough that it has been 100% worth it for me. First it was noscript them I switched to ublock origins advanced mode.

Oh the opml blogroll map is pretty exciting! I occasionally try to browse around for these manually but they can be hard to explore for so having a big list is a big deal. I usually just do searches for them + use a scour.ing interest to find more. I'm excited to look at it more this weekend when I'm not so tired.

One thing I'd love to see with rss / ompl sharing sites is more ease of exploration. It feels a bit clunky browsing many of these feed sharing sites because you need to evaluate each feed by manually clicking through each one etc or worse you can only import the whole opml at once flooding your feeds. For example I've seen some sites with feeds directly showing posts as they come in for each persons feed list(s) so you can see what that batch of rss feeds looks like in action without clicking around much. There are some sites doing great work getting people to share their lists but I think there is room for qol improvements.

One site I've been liking that has feeds for each list and is trying to reduce friction on sharing is blogflock.com. You can also follow other peoples lists directly on the site too so they show up in your main feed. I believe I've also seen some people self host their blogroll on their personal sites with similar feeds but I'm having trouble finding that software atm.

This isn't terribly interesting but I believe you actually need to pass 500 for it to be active. I sat at 500 for a bit the other day with this account and couldn't downvote but hitting 501 changed that.

I recently read this article on the same subject and thought it did a nice job of covering a lot of contextual matters: https://theconversation.com/i-lived-through-the-first-taliba...

New reddit is also login only for me. I'd already reduced my use a ton as quality of discussion went down and so many old comments and subforums got deleted but I guess this really is the end for me.

I've always thought of reddit as a "revolving forum" because it focused on regular turn over vs long term threads like traditional forums. I've been sad to see it try and fully shift away from forum appeals.

Currently hn, metafilter, tildes and some topic specific forums/discords plus a little searching online are meeting my needs but I'd love to hear what you folk have shifted to for places with forum appeals.

The old web doesn't necessarily mean the oldest web. 12-17 years ago was very much an older fairly different era of the web that's worth analyzing even if it's on the younger side of the old web. I can definitively sympathize with your reaction though, it doesn't feel like that era was that long ago yet.

There is a good argument for barring anyone from being in a position of power like that who is too old to be around for the second half of FAFO. He has nothing to lose but the american people and their global neighbors very much do.

Thanks for compiling this list.

Ah thanks you're right! I'd overlooked or forgotten some of what happened last year: https://kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/marion-county-agrees-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45910142

Another article about it: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/remember-that-raid-on-a-sm...

Here is the the old thread from august 13, 2023 back when it first got attention: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37105764

I had a bit of a funny situation happen where putting myself on the do not call list stopped calls from more reputable sources but also caused an even bigger increase in sketchy calls. I switched to using a free service tied to my phone company that makes callers enter a number before being forwarded. Turns out nearly 100% of these remaining calls were automated and got dropped. Turns out sometimes you need two fences to make good neighbors.

It's neat seeing what other millennials were up to for online gaming outside the anglosphere especially since a lot of those sites are still up.

The writing definitively has ai involved but it seemed like an interesting enough subject that it was worth submitting anyways especially since I couldn't find a better source.

Our idea of a public/private privacy division where private recording is discouraged and public is a free for all really feels dated.

I know personally I'd love to see a private/local/wide distribution division or something like that where simply going outside to get groceries or whatever doesn't count as consent to be plastered across the net. There are real harms to being a public figure and the net rarely understands context.

I do have one note on all this though. I think there are some real benefits to being able to record people in public re corruption, criminality etc so I don't think any changes should be about public recording but about distribution instead.

(Repost from the thread earlier today on the same subject)

Our idea of a public/private privacy division where private recording is discouraged and public is a free for all really feels dated.

I know personally I'd love to see a private/local/wide distribution division or something like that where simply going outside to get groceries or whatever doesn't count as consent to be plastered across the net. There are real harms to being a public figure and the net rarely understands context.

I do have one note on all this though. I think there are some real benefits to being able to record people in public re corruption, criminality etc so I don't think any changes should be about public recording but about distribution instead.

Reminds me a bit of this article that got submitted a few times recently and got a little discussion:

https://aeon.co/essays/silicon-valley-has-a-science-fiction-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050173

Hey thanks for adding customizable rss feeds! Super handy feature

Is there any chance the feed items could also have a direct link to the hn post? Right now I'm trying them, clicking through to your site then clicking to go to hn when I mostly just want the direct link to the hn discussion page so it's a bit clunky. I can solve this on my end easily with a redirect but I figured I'd mention it in case it's useful feedback.

Seirdy pretty regularly updates that list so a lot of it isn't from 2021. Currently the last update happened about a year ago.

They had their 15th birthday late last year: https://www.slow-journalism.com/delayed-gratification-magazi...

If you feel interested in following them but it feels too high traffic or chaotic you can follow specific categories with rss by just going to subcategories on the website and adding /feed to the end of the url. Even slower journalism!

For example I follow the long reads one: https://www.slow-journalism.com/filter/long-reads/feed

You can do that trick with a lot of sites. One of your old faves started pumping out listicles but still puts out good stuff here and there? Might be worth seeing if those higher quality articles have their own categories with feeds.

In my experience the best way to improve budget/old android phone performance is to disable as much random preinstalled crap as possible. Some stuff you can't disable directly through phone settings so you need adb. My phone is a budget phone from over a decade ago now and still going strong.

I liked using this software last time I was doing that to my ancient phone and have had zero issues using the preset lists to disable stuff. No updates in the last few years though so might be worth doing a little extra vetting before use. https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater

Seems like there is potentially multiple layers of trump drama going on with that bridge: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/16/trump-admin...

"Democrats allege Trump administration stalled US-Canada bridge opening as a favor to billionaire donor" A donor who owns a competing bridge

"The new deal requires US government approval if toll fees are lowered below regional averages, according to media reports. Previously, the Canadian government set toll prices, but the Trump administration seemed set on protecting a nearby bridge owned by Matthew Moroun, a son of the late transportation and real estate scion Manuel Moroun."

I like a lot of things about bubbles but it seems to surface a lot of negative posts that are mainly just rants. A good chunk of articles in the daily/weekly briefings kind of feel like an indie blogging spin on the negative posts/articles you'd see a lot on microblogging sites.

It regularly surfaces some good stuff so it's working but it's also kind of depressing in ways that made me leave microblogging sites. There regularly is a lot of anti ai rants, USpol rants, the web is dead, defeatist/nihilistic posts etc in the weekly/daily digests. The entire culture section are these types of posts currently.

Makes me wonder if the use of microblogging accounts to log in is partially biasing the userbase towards that kind of writing? I don't have a solution for this though and limiting to fediverse accounts probably has some upsides too.

Ultimately bubbles still gets a big thumbs up from me but I'd love to see these kinds of posts deprioritized a bit. Outside maybe a few deeper more constructive ones that link out well I don't think they represent the best of indie blogging. Anyways if you made it this deep into my ramble I hope you have a nice week.

The dev even offers free pro licenses to those who can't afford them:

"I shall add that if for some unfortunate reason you're not able to afford a license, just email me and i shall offer you one"

It's great seeing some more varied takes on search engines like this. That's essentially the same reason I use inoreaders rss search to find articles when I want to revisit them etc and it has been super handy. I know there have been some projects focused on rss search engines like OpenOrb that have some similarities to Hister. Makes me wonder if Hister could seed its history using rss.

For searches where you want more that just the first result and want a depth of results to go through and maybe even check out more than the first page of results I like to use meta-search engines that grab results from multiple sources. Plus it helps route around censorship since you are getting results from a variety of sources. Searxng is the best known one.

I was quite fond of ixquick but it shut down ages ago. These days I like etools.ch especially since it includes results from search engines like marginalia etc that I tend to forget to search directly but like having meshed into my general searches. Plus you can change which engines it uses in settings and it shows which search engine(s) each link came from which is handy.

On a related note I like to check out Serdys list of search engines with their own indexes once if a while. It gets updated here and there and includes a fair amount of search engines I don't tend to see elsewhere.

https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe...

I've been wanting something like this for a while now but as an extension that runs locally. Just something I can click to get a quick response telling me if the article seems like ai so I can focus on the writing without needing to spend energy on remembering ai styles and detecting obvious ai. I'd be pretty happy to see something like that built straight into firefox.

Ultimately slop is so pervasive that I'm wasting a fair amount of time vetting text and it's affecting my ability to simply enjoy reading. I keep getting part way into an article before realizing it's low quality ai writing. Being able to get a quick heads up that it looks like ai before starting would save me a lot of energy even on articles I decide to try reading because it cuts down on mental overhead.